Appendix 2
Illustrative Examples of Experiential Learning Projects and Internships in the Humanities at the University of Michigan
Return to "The Case for Bringing Experiential Learning into the Humanities"
See Appendix I
Partner Organization |
Project |
Major Outputs & Description of Work |
HistoryLabs: Graduate Level
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum |
Experiencing History Digital Tool for Teaching the Holocaust at the college level |
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Detroit Institute of Art |
Virtual Fieldtrip for the Rivera Court Mural |
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American Historical Association |
Race and the Institutional Histories of the American Historical Association |
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KQED, Pittsburgh Public Television |
Comparative History of Reparations: Germany, South Africa, and the US |
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HistoryLabs: Undergraduate Level
Michigan Immigration Resource Center |
Immigrant Justice Lab |
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Ecology Center |
Environmental Justice Lab
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London Metropolitan Archives |
Living and Dying in Late Medieval London |
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School for Environment and Sustainability |
Great Lakes Environmental Justice Lab |
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Bentley Historical Library |
Asian Americans at UM and in Michigan |
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Bentley Historical Library |
Politics of Academic Freedom |
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Race, Local History, and Sundown Towns in the US |
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Policing and Social Justice Lab |
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Rackham Doctoral Internship Program
Morgan Carlton |
ProQuest |
Curating thematic teaching collections of materials from ProQuest digital repository |
Dawn Kaczmar |
ProQuest |
Curating thematic teaching collections of materials from ProQuest digital repository |
Steve Pelletier |
ProQuest |
Compiling bibliographies for literature and drama collections for the Contemporary World Drama product |
Ariana Peruzzi |
ProQuest |
Developing Music and Social change product around thematic topics to be used in the college classroom |
Jennifer Sierra |
Michigan Humanities Council |
Preparing for Great Michigan Read event and launching Emerging Leaders Program |
Roxana-Maria Aras |
Arab American National Museum |
Researching and developing content for exhibitions, public programs, and educational outreach |
Staci Gusakova |
Ithaka S+R |
Developing new projects, collecting data, and conducting data analysis on national postsecondary educational landscape |
Kate O’Connor |
ProQuest |
Strategizing ways to increase use of Congressional Hot Topics product in policy research |
Cheyenne Pettit |
ProQuest |
Undertaking market research on the Black Studies Center product, including analysis of competitor products |
Robert Ramaswamy |
Michigan Publishing |
Developing products for the American Council of Learned Societies Humanities E-Book Collection |
Jess Allen |
UM Center for Research on Learning and Teaching |
Translating research into interactive presentations, especially for paratheatrical learning tools |
Duygu Ergun |
US Holocaust Memorial Museum |
Mining archival sources for database on forced labor camps; launch crowdsourcing for database |
Benjamin Hollenbach |
UM Ginsberg Center |
Supporting efforts to broker and leverage University/community partnerships to meet community-identified priorities |
Erin Johnston-Weiss |
US Holocaust Memorial Museum |
Mining archival sources for database on forced labor camps; launch crowdsourcing for database |
Zachary Kopin |
Michigan History Center |
Managing project for restoration, community engagement, and interpretation of Julia and Ulysses Grant Home in Detroit |
Vincent Longo |
UM Clements Library |
Creating and carrying out communication strategies for public events; working with curators to assess and write finding aids for existing collections |
Sydney Tunstall |
UM Center for Social Solutions |
Coordinating the work across multiple sites of Mellon-funded Just Futures Initiative and engaging local organizations in discussions of community-based reparations in Detroit |
Katherine Brausch |
American Historical Association |
Collaborating on research for projects on “Racist Histories and the AHA” and “Freedom to Learn” |
Caroline Fernelius |
Ecology Center |
Providing communications content development, especially compelling stories about the organization and its work |
Joseph Frankl |
UM Publishing |
Conducting research on open access opportunities and how they differ according to academic discipline; collaborating with Library Relations team |
Simeneh Gebremariam |
UM Kelsey Museum |
Helping to implement new strategic vision for the museum in relation to DEI initiatives, marketing and communication, and audience-building |
Timnet Gedar |
Reveal Digital |
Developing digital collections through identifying academic experts on specific topics and conducting interviews |
Emmamarie Haasl |
Ithaka S+R |
Developing new projects, collecting data, and conducting data analysis on national postsecondary educational landscape |
Tamarae Hildebrandt |
UM Publishing |
Collaborating on developing Fulcrum project |
Esther Ladkau |
Ithaka S+R |
Developing new projects, collecting data, and conducting data analysis on national postsecondary educational landscape |
Ruby MacDougall |
Ithaka S+R |
Developing new projects, collecting data, and conducting data analysis on national postsecondary educational landscape |
Sarah Van Cleve |
UM Publishing |
Implementing pilot program of Big Ten Alliance university presses and libraries to create a new e-book collection |